May archive

Developed in association with the Fink Agency, Jody Medland and Bullseye Lantern Ltd., Track The Ripper is an interactive mobile movie that allows you to visit the streets of London's Whitechapel in 1888. Glean as many clues as you can and match your findings against a police database of suspects to identify the Ripper. Can you repay the faith shown in you by Inspector Abberline and stop the most notorious serial killer of all time before he kills Mary Kelly?

BBOWT (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust) will be using WildKey this summer to help school children identify and record wildlife at their new Woolley Firs Environmental Education Centre. Great to see another Wildlife Trust using the technology to hook kids into wildlife identification.

Early trails of the web-based Paediatric Observation Priority Score (POPS) form appear to be reducing the number of child admissions. The use of the form (developed in conjunction with Dr Damian Roland from University Hospitals of Leicester) has coincided with a fall in admissions. Clinicians often struggle to identify and prioritise children due to a lack of clear discriminators identifying serious illness. POPS is a web based assessment which quickly scores (between 0-16) acutely ill children on a combination of physiological, behavioural and risk identifiers using easy to collect data. This enables staff (even if inexperienced) to assess, prioritise and treat acutely ill children, and manage risk in busy clinical area. WK will keep you posted as the trial continues...